2015 StartupHoyas Challenge Finalists

FIRST PLACE

Farm Fresh Truck – (Areebah Ajani CCT ’15, Surabhi Agrawal MBA ’16) FarmFresh Trucks provides healthy, fresh produce options at an affordable price via a mobile grocery truck to DC residents who currently have limited access. We do this by streamlining supply chain and going from produce providers directly to customers without the demands of a traditional brick and mortar store.

SECOND PLACE

SWAT – (Brandon Anderson COL ’15) SWAT (Safety With Accountability & Transparency) is a secure evidence collector and police misconduct reporting service. Our mission is to amplify the voices of communities by improving evidence collection through instantly securing real-time video from users’ cell phones, streamlining and automating the police complaints process and informing users of their civil rights. Using real-time data analytics, SWAT equips local governments with the nation’s first comprehensive, live database of police violence. SWAT cultivates a network of community residents and local governments working together to improve policing.

PopHotel – (Clyde McGraw MBA ’16, Alex Caine MBA ’16, Michael Kelly MBA ’16, Keyvan Pajouhan MBA ’16) PopHotel is an innovative, urban hotel concept that leverages the power of the collaborative consumption economy in what can be described as a hybrid between AirBNB and WeWork. PopHotel leases vacant office space at a low cost and transforms it into modern and efficient urban accommodations.

HONORABLE MENTION

OwnerShop – (Jordan Epstein SFS ’17, Estevan Cohn SFS ’17) OwnerShop is a rebate-shopping site that gives consumers rebates in the form of common stock financially embedded into all purchases.

Sunniva Cafe LLC – (Jake DeCicco MSB ’16) Our business is a functional beverage in the ready-to-drink coffee industry providing superior health and all natural energy benefits. Along with that, we have developed an extremely affordable and efficient manufacturing process by using dehydrated coffee which makes our product a simple one step blending process where any and all Co-packaging companies can produce world wide. There is no inconvenient, extra expenses of brewing and preparing our coffee. Our final product is completely finished after one blend of our simple yet very unique recipe. This is our product, our business is a lifestyle– the Sunniva Difference.